Turandot
Stage design:
ca. 170 m wide, 43 m deep, 550 t weight
More than 500 performers
1000 costumes
Power consumption lighting: 800.000 W
40 containers full of material
85 trailers (13 of which meant for light, sound and video equipment)
more than 200 crew members
Lighting and video:
600 Spotlights (thereof about 200 moving lights)
22 Ireos 7kW Space Cannons
2 LED walls 22M2 Barco S 10 (supervised by 6 video technicians)
Sound:
Chief orchestra with 112 members provided with single microphones
Chinese percussion group: gongs, xylophone, bass-xylophone, effect-percussions
Brass section with 9 members off-stage: trumpets, trombones, tuba, 2 saxophones
Chief choir with 86 singers
One choir off-stage with 20 singers
One boys’ choir with 12 singers
Digico D5 supervised by 2 sound technicians
Soloists provided with 2 affixed microphones and 2 pocket-transmitters
All in all 18 transmission systems (Sennheiser)
Monitoring:
Video-Monitoring for sub-esembles off-stage and for the chief choir
Acoustic irradiation:
2 x 14 L-Acoustics V-DOSC
5 x V-DOSC as Sidefill
2 x 12 dV-DOSC
2 Delay-Lines
Signal distribution:
Aviom-System
Credits:
Producer: Premium Classics GmbH | Director: Zhang Yimou | Project Manager: Tobias Kühnel from Show Plan | Conductor: Maestro Janos Ács Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra et Coro Opera Giuseppe Verdi di Salerno | Choreography and Executive Director: Chen Weiya | Set Design: Gao Guangjian | Set Design, Costumes and Requisites: Zeng Li | Lighting Design: Sha Xiaolan Date of Production: 07/09/2005 | Location: VELTINSArena, Schalke/Gelsenkirchen
Companies involved:
ShowPlan: logistics (transportation, set-up, rehearsals, shows, lighting- and video, rigging) Nüssli GmbH: Setting ETF Procon France: Lighting, Video Westfalen Sound: Sound
Source of information: Hömberg, Martin: „Materialschlacht: Puccinis ‚Turandot’“. In: Production Partner 8/2005, pp. 16-21.
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